Norwood

Norwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author Charles Portis's first novel, displayed right out of the gate...
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Norwood by Portis, Charles

Norwood

$24.79

Norwood

$24.79
Author: Charles Portis
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Norwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author Charles Portis's first novel, displayed right out of the gate the wit, style, and singular voice that made him one of our great American writers.

"A great American deadpan comedy. . . . Norwood, like a belt of whiskey, cleared my sinuses right up." --Slate

Out of the Neon Desert of Roller Dromes, chili parlors, the Grand Ole Opry, and girls who want "to live in a trailer and play records all night" comes ex-marine and troubadour Norwood Pratt. Sent on a mission to New York by Grady Fring, the Kredit King, Norwood has visions of "speeding across the country in a late model car, seeing all the sights."

By the time he returns home to Ralph, Texas, Norwood has met his true love, Rita Lee, on a Trailway bus; befriended Edmund B. Ratner, the self-described "world's smallest perfect man"; and helped Joann, "the chicken with a college education," realize her true potential in life.

As with all of Portis's fiction, the tone is cool, sympathetic, funny, and undeniably American.

"Flawless . . . Norwood is a road novel as indispensable as On the Road itself." --Ed Park, Believer

Author: Charles Portis
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 08/01/1999
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780879517038
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 08/01/1999 pg. 54
Library Journal 09/01/1999 pg. 238
Entertainment Weekly 12/10/1999 pg. 105
New York Times 12/26/1999 pg. 20

About the Author
Charles Portis (b. December 28, 1933, d. February 17, 2020) lived in Arkansas, where he was born and educated. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War, was the London bureau chief of the New York Herald-Tribune, and was a writer for The New Yorker. He was the author of five novels: Norwood, The Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, True Grit, and Gringos.

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